My husband Mick & I live on our family sheep farm in the Murray Mallee in South Australia.

Resilience is something we thought we knew through dry land farming in the Mallee, until the tragic events of the last four years, which led Mick & I on a journey we never even imagined was on our path.

5 years ago, Monday the 8th of January 2018 is a night that is scarred in my memory forever. Police came to our farm to tell us that my beautiful son Murray (Muzz) had passed away, he had taken his own life. Two months short of his 30th birthday.

I have never felt pain like it and never will again.

It is something you don’t ever get over, you have to learn to live with it the best you can.

4 years ago, just as we were starting to find our way through the fog of grief, Mick was hospitalised for 6 months with Guillain Barre Syndrome – yes, we had never heard of it either let alone pronounce it, so we called it GBS. It is getting better slowly, but as Mick was paralysed from the neck down, he had to learn to walk again amongst many other challenges.

The journey to find my meaning and purpose in life took a direction into healing and learning how to manage my reactions to my emotions through positive psychology and wellbeing. I found it helped me immensely cope with my grief, and decided to become a certified trainer and help others flourish.